I have a visa gift card or debit card. How do I use it to buy Crypto? Ideally XMR but BTC works too.

  • CashDragonA
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    16 hours ago

    Not sure about using visa gift cards, but there is Haveno DEX branded as RetoSwap which is a peer to peer exchange with many different payment methods available. https://retoswap.com/

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      1 hour ago

      Note retroswap supports physical cash transactions. I’ve never used it but It looks like you’ll need some Monero as a security deposit, and of course there’s is random chance involved in finding a willing seller to accept the gift card. If you pay with the card, remember whoever originally bought it is theoretically traceable by visa.

      There are also many sites that will buy gift cards, at a loss. You may be able to use one of them to turn it into fiat.

      Also a pawn shop may give you cash for a gift card, idk.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    If bitcoin, there are bitcoin ATMs, not sure if these exist for other coins. Find such ATM and buy with cash. Wear a mask and sunglasses and a generic hoodie with the hood up.

    Disclaimer: I never used these, only know that they exist.

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    13 hours ago

    I mean, this is explicitly illegal. So if you want to do it, you’ll have to go through people who don’t mind violating the law. Finding a drug dealer would probably be your best bet. Find some drug dealer that has some crypto. Give them the cards for crypto with a substantial transaction fee. (Like give them $100 in gift card for $80 in crypto. That’s pretty much your only option. It’s illegal to sell without CYK. That pretty much requires you to work with pretty shady characters if you want to obtain crypto without having it tracked to your identity. I would recommend not doing it. But if this is really something you’re set on, your best bet would probably be to talk to a dealer.